{"id":183609,"date":"2013-01-14T20:18:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-15T01:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/01\/14\/when-gun-nuts-mention-switzerland-cite-this\/"},"modified":"2013-01-14T20:18:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-15T01:18:00","slug":"when-gun-nuts-mention-switzerland-cite-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/01\/14\/when-gun-nuts-mention-switzerland-cite-this\/","title":{"rendered":"When Gun Nuts Mention Switzerland, Cite This"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, the Swiss do have common posession of military weapons as a part of their armed forces, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/national\/archive\/2013\/01\/more-guns-less-crime-the-switzerland-example\/267165\/\">the regulatory regime is a gun control advocates wet dream<\/a>.  They literally count the bullets that their citizen soldiers carry (rolling the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gun_politics_in_Switzerland\">Wiki<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">The Montpelier Exempted Village Schools Board of Education has approved the carrying of handguns by its custodial staff.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The 5-0 vote of the board Wednesday night to allow handgun training for four custodians to be able to tote weapons at the K-12 campus at the Williams County school came after last month&#8217;s deadly shooting rampage at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">School officials say that having armed personnel &#8211; believed to be the first for any school system in Ohio &#8211; is designed to thwart incidents of violence and prevent what happened in Newtown, Conn., from occurring here.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">&#8220;Sitting back and doing nothing and hoping it doesn&#8217;t happen to you is just not good policy anymore. There is a need for schools to beef up their security measures,&#8221; Supertendent Jamie Grime told The Blade today. &#8220;Having guns in the hands of the right people are not a hindrance. They are a means to protect.&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Nothing that is proposed even comes close to this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, the Swiss do have common posession of military weapons as a part of their armed forces, but the regulatory regime is a gun control advocates wet dream. They literally count the bullets that their citizen soldiers carry (rolling the Wiki): The Montpelier Exempted Village Schools Board of Education has approved the carrying of handguns &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[984,1055],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-gun-laws"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183609"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}